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Patent GB-882434-A (GB)
Title: Engine cooling arrangement in motor vehicles
Inventor: ISSIGONIS ALEXANDER ARNOLD
IPC: F01P3/18
Filed: 1959-07-15
Abstract: 882,434. Cooling motors. AUSTIN MOTOR CO. Ltd. Sept. 6, 1960 [July 15, 1959], No. 24272/59. Addition to 854,895. Class 79(3). A liquid cooled engine A is disposed transversely at the front of a vehicle and is additionally cooled by two fans E, one at each side of the vehicle, each associated with its own radiator B or C each of which faces transversely with respect to the front air intake D. Each fan is guarded by a cowling F and the air exit face of each radiator matrix adjoins a short duct G welded to the corresponding front wing valance H provided with slots for the escape of air. A rubber gasket I is fitted between each radiator and duct.
Patent GB-237546-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to coupling mechanism for railway and like vehicles
IPC: B61G5/04
Filed: 1924-10-14
Abstract: 237,546. National Malleable & Steel Castings Co., (Assignees of Willison, J.). July 24, 1924, [Convention date]. Couplings, automatic; couplings, automatic, convertible to non-automatic.-In a transitional coupling mechanism for connecting together couplers of different types in which a vertically movable pivoted transitional coupling member can be swung into a slot in the buffing face of one of the couplers, means are provided to close the forward end of the slot when the transitional member is in non-operative position, to prevent interference in coupling with a like coupler. The link 17 of the non-automatic coupling member pivots on a bolt 12 in the automatic coupler head A, a slot being made in the buffing face and underside of the coupler A to permit horizontal and vertical positions of the non-automatic coupler to be attained. A block 10, pivoted to the bolt 12, overlaps the link 17 so that it is raised and lowered with the link. When the non-automatic coupling is out of use the block 10 is supported on a ledge 27 and fills the gap in the buffing face of the coupler A, and abutments 25, Fig. 2, and 28, Fig. 4, on the coupler head contact with abutments 24, Fig. 2, and 26, Fig. 4, on the block 10 to absorb the buffing shocks. Actuating means 13 for the sliding lock 7 is also pivoted on the bolt 12. Specification 9622/12 is referred to.
Patent GB-208201-A (GB)
Title: An improved combination tool and dipping rod
IPC: G01C13/00
Filed: 1922-09-08
Abstract: 208,201. Nash, P. M. Sept. 8, 1922. Dipping-rods.-The tool is formed of a graduated met'al bar A fitted at one end with a handle B made of or covered with a material which is a non-conductor of electricity, while the other end may be fitted with a socket C for engaging and manipulating the oil taps. The bar may be used to short-circuit the sparking-plug of one of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine for testing purposes. The tool may be made of insulating material in which the bar portion may be provided with a metal part for short-circuiting a sparking-plug.
Patent GB-663869-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to ultra high frequency electron discharge apparatus
IPC: H01J25/38
Filed: 1948-09-17
Abstract: 663,869. Travelling-wave tubes. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, Ltd. Sept. 17, 1948 [Oct. 31, 1947], No. 24410/48. Class 39 (i). A travelling-wave amplifier comprises a wave-guide having cylindrical symmetry and having a slow mode of propagation for electromagnetic waves, and means projecting an annular beam of electrons coaxially inside the wave-guide from an electron gun under the influence of an axial static magnetic field and a radial static electric field, the gun being within the magnetic field and the beam imparting energy continuously to the waves propagated in the wave-guide. The waveguide may comprise a helically-wound ribbon 25 supported by three insulating rods 24, of which one is shown, and terminated by radiating antennµ 26, 27 connected to electrodes 23, 30. Along the axis of the helix there is provided an electrode 35 which is supported by insulators 36, 37 and connected to electrodes 21, 34 by spring members 38, 39 which may be provided with a coating to increase the attenuation: an electric field between the electrode 35 and the helix serves to remove ions and this suppress one cause of parasitic oscillations. The distance between two consecutive turns of the helix may be made equal to the distance the electrons travel in half a period. The electron gun may comprise a focusing. member 15 supported by three insulating rods 19 and supporting a mica disc 18 on which the annular cathode 13 is mounted. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 states that the ribbon may be uniformly attenuated along the helix or at given points. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.
Patent GB-533967-A (GB)
Title: Manufacture of polymeric materials and compositions containing the same
IPC: C08K5/43
Filed: 1939-08-24
Abstract: 533,967. Resinous compositions. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., E. I. Aug. 24, 1939, No. 24441. Convention date, Aug. 26, 1938. [Class 2 (iii)] Compositions are prepared by mixing a synthetic linear polyamide with a sulphonamideformaldehyde condensation product. Suitable condensates include those . of formaldehyde with toluene sulphonamide, cyclohexane sulphonamide, N-ethyltoluenesulphonamide, diphenylsulphonamide, naphthalenesulphonamides, anthracenesulphonamides, cyclopentane sulphonamides, heptane sulphonamides, and cetane sulphonamides. Hydroxylated non- solvents such as water, methanol, propanol, isobutanol, benzyl alcohol, cyclohexanol, hexamethylene glycol and glycerol, plasticizers such as dibutyl phthalate, tricresyl phosphate, lactic acid, mandelic acid, N-alkyl sulphonamides, and diamylphenol, lustre modifying materials, pigments, dyes, oils, antioxidants, antiseptics and cellulose derivatives may also be present. The products may be used in the manufacture of yarns, fabrics, bristles, surgical sutures, fishing leaders, fishline, dental floss, rods, tubes, films, ribbons, sheets, safety glass interlayers, moulded articles, turnery compositions, adhesives, electrical insulation, impregnating agents, coating compositions and moulding compositions. In examples (1) a polyamide prepared from a mixture of hexamethylene diammonium adipate and decamethylene diammonium sebicate is blended with a toluenesulphonamide-formaldehyde condensate in the presence of n-butyl alcohol or of dimethylphthalate, p-tert-amylphenol, chloroform, methanol and n-butyl alcohol, or with a cyclohexane sulphonamide-formaldehyde resin in the presence of n-butyl alcohol, the solution poured on to a glass plate and the film removed from the glass by immersion in water ; (2) a ribbon , of polyhexamethylene adipamide prepared by extrusion of the molten polymer into water is immersed in a solution of a toluene-sulphonamide-formaldehyde resin in alcohol for two hours, rinsed and dried; (4) a solution of a polyamide derived from hexamethylene diammonium adipate and decamethylenediammonium sebacate, diphenylolpropane and toluene sulphonamide-formaldehyde resin in n-butyl alcohol is coated on to cotton sateen, dried, a second coating applied, dried and a third coating, containing a blue pigment, applied, dried and the whole coated fabric pressed. Specifications 461,236 and 461,237 are referred to.
Patent GB-428180-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in tents
IPC: E04H15/28
Filed: 1934-10-24
Abstract: 428,180. Tents. ERIKSSON, B. G., 20, Karlbergsvõgen, Stockholm. Aug. 24, 1934, No. 24455. [Class 20 (i)] Relates to tents of the kind in which the duck is stretched by a central rod extending vertically upwards from a skeleton of poles. According to the invention, the poles are made in two parts 1, 2 connected together by pivoted joints 3, so that when the central rod 15 is pushed upwards, the skeleton is expanded and the duck 19 stretched. The joints 3 may be locked in position by a locking pin. The upper parts 2 of the rods are connected by horizontal joints 8 and vertical joints 12 to a top flange 9 having a socket 10 in which the central rod 15 slides and to which it is locked in adjusted position by a transverse pin. The tent is secured by ropes 28 extending from the top of the central rod 15 to pegs driven in the ground, a tightening device 29 being provided. An apron 18 is secured to the sides of the duck for example by buttons 20, and the bottom flange 21 of this apron rests on the ground and is covered by a tarpaulin 31. A cloth 23 forming a ceiling is stretched over the upper pole parts 2 and is attached to the duck for example by buttons 24. Insulating spaces 22, 25 are thus formed round the tent, which is kept warm and moisture free.
Patent GB-635599-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to devices for dispensing small quantities or drops of liquids
IPC: B65D47/26
Filed: 1947-09-05
Abstract: 635,599. Liquid-containers; stoppers. ELLIOTTS LIVERPOOL, Ltd., and ELLIOTT, W. Sept. 5, 1947, No. 24466. [Classes 21, 66, 125(i) and 125(iii)] Means for delivering liquids in small quantities or drops comprises a container 10 with a screw cover 11 formed with a diametral sleeve or cylinder 13 having a spout 14. A valve 12 rotatable in the sleeve has a right-angled passage 18, 19 communicating with the spout and a radial passage 17 communicating with venting passages 16, 25. When the valve is turned by a handle 15 through an angle of 90 degrees from the position shown, the passage 17 first connects the vent 16, 25 to the interior of the container in order to release any pressure that may exist therein and then the passage 18, 19 connects the interior of the container to the spout. A set screw in the valve moves in a slot 22 in the sleeve to limit the rotation of the valve.
Patent GB-797414-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in cooling towers
IPC: E04H5/12
Filed: 1954-08-24
Abstract: 797,414. Cooling-towers. ZINN, W. V. May 23, 1955 [Aug. 24, 1954], No. 24596/54. Class 64(1) The cylindrical shell of a cooling tower is made of separately pre-cast elements 1 of concrete or other material, assembled so as to break the horizontal joint between them, and circumferentially reinforced and held together by tensioning means received and located in means, e.g. grooved plates 11, on the elements. The tensioning means are steel rings 8, which are located in the channels 7 on, or in recesses in, the elements 1. The rings are covered by cement 12. At the vertical joints the elements are channelled, tongued and grooved, or halved and the spaces may contain reinforcing material and be filled with cement. Specification 797,413 is referred to.
Patent GB-1460502-A (GB)
Title: Method for curing fissures or cracks in workpieces of metal  oxide materials processed under high material stress
IPC: C04B41/00
Filed: 1974-06-04
Abstract: 1460502 Heat treating metal oxide workpieces LASAG SA 4 June 1974 24763/74 Addition to 1460501 Heading C1A Fissures and cracks in workpieces other than watch bearing jewels made of metal oxide materials processed under conditions leading to high material stress are cured by heating the workpieces in a furnace within a period of 4-16 hours to a temperature in the range of from 1000‹ to 1600‹ C., maintaining this temperature for a period of from 12 to 48 hours and subsequently cooling the workpieces in the furnace.
Patent GB-587306-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to adjusting devices for fluid pressure operated brakes
IPC: F16D65/54
Filed: 1944-12-11
Abstract: 587,306. Wear-compensating means for brakes. AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS CO., Ltd., and CHOUINGS, L. C. Dec. 11, 1944, No. 24831. [Class 103 (i)] An internal expanding brake comprises two shoes 13, 14 anchored at 11 and 12 respectively to the backplate and adapted to be applied to the drum 9 by a hydraulic piston and single-ended cylinder 20. The cylinder unit 20 is free to move tangentially against friction relatively to the back plate and automatic clearance adjusting means are provided between the cylinder unit 20 and the leading shoe. The clearance adjusting means may be as described in Specification 578,038. Alternatively, as shown in Fig. 4, the adjusting means may comprise strips 43, 44 pressed into frictional engagement with a flange 38 on the cylinder by means of springs 45, 46 and having a lost motion engagement with the leading shoe 13 by means of a pin 50 on the shoe and slots 48, 49 in the strips. On operation, if wear has occurred, the pin 50 is forced against the left-hand sides of the slots 48, 49, so forcing the strips to slide against friction to the left relatively to the flange 38. On withdrawal of the shoes the shoe 13 is stopped by engagement of the pin 50 with the right-hand ends of the slots 48, 49 since the withdrawal, springs 18, 19, Fig. 1, are insufficiently powerful to overcome the friction between the strips 43, 44 and the flange 38.
Patent GB-1435325-A (GB)
Title: Thermostatic control arrangement for a heater automatic temperature control s
IPC: G05D23/24
Filed: 1973-05-24
Abstract: 1435325 Automatic temperature control TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Ltd 24 May 1973 24839/73 Heading G3R When a thermostat, designed to switch a room heater on and off in accordance with the ambient air temperature, is mounted on the heater, errors arise from the fact that the temperature sensor receives directly-conducted heat from the heater at a variable rate depending on the proportion of time that the heater is switched on. The invention proposes to eliminate such errors by providing an auxiliary heater which supplies to the sensor an amount of heat inversely dependent on the proportion of each switching cycle that the main heater is on. The auxiliary heater and main heater are required, in combination, to provide an average rate of heat input which is the same from cycle to cycle. In Fig. 2, a bridge circuit, including as one arm the sensor 8, controls a pulse generator PG and a triac 5, triggered at zero-voltage instants of the applied pulse train, effects an appropriate mark/ space ratio of on/off periods of the main heater element 3. Thermally coupled to the sensor 8 is the auxiliary heater 6, which is switched on whenever the main heater is switched off, and vice versa. The sensor receives heat at the same rate from heater 6 when it is on as from heater 3 when it is on, so that the rate of supply of directly-conducted heat is substantially constant, so eliminating the error which would otherwise be caused by the variable heat input from the main heater 3. The circuit components 12 to 15 in Fig. 2 may be constituted by an integrated circuit (20) Fig. 3, (not shown).
Patent GB-820021-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in windscreen wiper driving mechanisms
IPC: B60S1/10
Filed: 1955-08-30
Abstract: 820,021. Rotary engines. TRICO PRODUCTS CORPORATION. Aug. 30, 1955 [Sept. 10, 1954], No. 24867/55. Class 110 (2). [Also in Group XXIII] Relates to an oscillating vane type motor for a windscreen wiper mechanism (see Group XXIII). As shown in Fig. 1, a vane type suction motor 10 oscillates wiper arms 6 through the medium of cables 8 either over the frontal portions 2, alone, of the windscreen or over both the portions 2 and lateral rearwardlyextending portions 3 of the windscreen. The motor control valve is operable by a wire 11 from a rack-and-pinion unit 12 having a shaft 13, Fig. 5, and an actuating knob 13a. Referring to Fig. 2, the motor shaft 9 carrying a vane 17 has secured thereon an arm 25 engageable alternately with shoulders 126 and 28 or 126 and 26, in a recessed face of a kicker member 21, Fig. 3, rotatable on an extension 35 of the shaft 9, the kicker 21 operating a valve 19, Fig. 2, so as to connect a suction port 23 with one or other side of the vane 17 through an associated port 24 (of which only one is shown). The kicker 21 is snapped into position in either direction by a spring 22 disposed between the kicker and a pin 27 secured to the motor casing. As shown in Fig. 3, the shoulder 26 has an offset shoulder 28 adjacent thereto, which can be engaged by the arm 25. Clearly when the arm engages between the shoulders 28 and 126 the stroke of the motor will be reduced. The kicker 21 is axially slidable on the extension 35 and is normally urged by a resilient and flexible lever 29 to the position shown wherein the arm will operate between the shoulder 28 and the shoulder 126. The lever 29 anchored to the motor casing at 30, has a keyhole slot 41, Fig. 3, for connection with the headed stem 40 of a piston 38 in a cylinder 39, and a slot 33 engageable with a neck 34 of the kicker 21. When suction is applied to the cylinder 39 the kicker is moved to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, whereby the shoulders 26 and 126 will be aligned with the arm 25 and consequently the stroke of the motor will be increased. Suction is applied to the cylinder 39 through a nipple 43 and a conduit 44. As shown in Fig. 5, a handle 51 can rotate a tubular shaft 50 carrying a valve member 47 having a recess 47a therein. In the position shown the recess 47a connects a port 45, communicating with the conduit 44, with a port 48, communicating with a suction conduit 48a. By turning the handle 51 the port 48 may be closed-off and the port 45 opened to atmosphere in which case the piston 38 will be returned to the position shown in Fig. 2. The piston 38 could alternatively be operated by a cable or if desired the valve 47 could be made responsive to vehicle speed so as automatically to cause the wipers to move over a smaller arc. In another embodiment described with reference to Figs. 8 to 11 (not shown) the motor vane is operable by hydraulic pressure but the selector piston for the kicker is operable by suction. Specification 735,558, [Group XXIII], is referred to.
Patent GB-1168044-A (GB)
Title: Clutch Plates having means to Prevent Flutter
IPC: F16D25/0638
Filed: 1968-05-24
Abstract: 1,168,044. Friction clutches. TWIN DISC Inc. 24 May, 1968 [2 June, 1967], No. 24910/68. Heading F2C. In order to eliminate flutter in counter-rotating clutch plates, axial movement of the plates is damped by unbalancing at least some of the plates or providing centrifugal weights acting radially on some of the plates. In one embodiment of a multi-plate hydraulically-engaged clutch, plates F are splined to a drum D and plates S are splined to a hub H in which are mounted radially movable centrifugal weights 32. The weights may have a smooth periphery or have axial grooves acting as a continuation of the splines of the hub, but as shown the weights have circumferential grooves which act, when the clutch is running disengaged, to space the plates S apart and load them radially. When the clutch is engaged the weights are forced inwardly. In other embodiments the externally splined clutch plates are segmented to unbalance them, or they are unbalanced by boring holes, forming notches or cutting along a chord. When the externally splined plates are thus unbalanced the internal plates may be splined to a slightly skewed hub, this causes the internally toothed plates to bump the externally toothed plates into normal alignment to the clutch axis, and the friction caused by the unbalance of the externally splined plates holds them in position and prevents flutter.
Patent GB-1473014-A (GB)
Title: 5-amino-4,5-dideoxy-ambutyrosin a
IPC: A61P31/04
Filed: 1974-06-05
Abstract: 1473014 5<SP>11 </SP>- Amino - 4,5<SP>11</SP> - dideoxy - ambutyrosin A BRISTOL-MYERS CO 5 June 1974 [15 June 1973] 24949/74 Heading C2C Novel compound V and its acid addition salts is prepared by acylating 4<SP>1</SP>-deoxyambutyrosin A with at least 4 moles of an amino-blocking agent capable of removal by hydrogenolysis per mole of 4<SP>1</SP>-deoxyambutyrosin A to produce a compound II in which B is an amino-blocking group; acylating compound II with a sulphonyl halide W-SO 2 -Z in which Z is Cl, Br or I and W is C 1-6  alkyl or R 3 , R 4  substituted-phenyl (in which R 3  and R 4  are H, Cl, Br, I, NO 2 , C 1-6  alkyl or C 1-6  alkoxy) in the presence of an excess amount of organic base; treating the 5<SP>11</SP>- sulphonyl ester formed with a large excess of an alkali metal azide in an aqueous organic solvent and hydrogenating the 5<SP>11</SP>-azido compound formed. In the compounds prepared, B is benzyloxycarbonyl and the sulphonyl group is tosyl. Compounds V have antibacterial activity and form with a carrier or diluent a pharmaceutical composition which may be administered orally or parenterally.
Patent GB-534235-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to end fittings for flexible hoses
IPC: F16L33/18
Filed: 1939-09-01
Abstract: 534,235. Hose pipe connections. AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS CO., Ltd., and CLENCH, E. C. S. Sept. 1, 1939, No. 25091. [Class 99 (i)] A hose end fitting 14 is secured to the hose 24 by squeezing the latter between inner and outer tubular members 15, 10 and providing a packing ring 21 between radial surfaces on the tubular members to prevent access of fluid to the hose end face. The sleeve 10 screws into the fitting 14 the end of which may be upset at 31. A flange 22 on the tube 15 engages a shoulder 19 on the sleeve and the packing ring 21 is housed in the recess formed between the sleeve, tube and fitting. The fitting may be integral with the sleeve and the shoulder 19 may be formed in the process of swaging the sleeve on to the hose.
Patent GB-686960-A (GB)
Title: Illuminated indicator knob for control panels
IPC: G05G1/10
Filed: 1951-10-26
Abstract: 686,960. Indicators for switches. BENDIX AVIATION CORPORATION. Oct. 26,1951 [Nov. 24, 1950], No. 25140/51. Class 38 (v) An indicator knob for a rotary switch or other device is made of transparent plastic material 4 the top and side surfaces of which are covered with a layer of opaque material constituted e.g. by a metal jacket 8; an indicating mark such as a straight line 9 is cut into the jacket and into the plastic 4 and coated with a layer of translucent material and light 13 from an edge-illuminated dial 1 is directed upwards and to the mark 9 by bevelled reflecting surfaces 5, 12. The surface 5 may be formed in the material 4 as shown or in the dial 1, Fig. 3 (not shown).
Patent GB-912903-A (GB)
Title: Radiation initiated sulfoxidation of paraffinic and/or naphthentic hydrocarbons
IPC: C07C303/14
Filed: 1959-07-22
Abstract: Sulphonic acids are prepared from normal paraffinic or naphthenic hydrocarbons or mixtures consisting substantially only of such hydrocarbons by contacting the hydrocarbon with a mixture of sulphur dioxide and oxygen in the presence of high energy ionizing radiation wherein the irradiation is effected at a dose rate between 0.001 and 10 megaroentgens per hour until at least 0.095 megaroentgens have been absorbed whereupon the irradiation is discontinued and the reaction allowed to continue by maintaining the contact between the hydrocarbon and sulphur dioxide and oxygen for a further period of time.  The reaction mixture may subsequently be irradiated for one or more further periods and the contact between the reactants continued between each of the further irradiations and for a period following the final irradiation.  Reaction is preferably effected under anhydrous conditions at 30 DEG -130 DEG F., and if desired under elevated pressure.  Suitably 0.1 to 2.0 moles of oxygen and 0.2 to 4.0 moles of SO2 are used per mole of hydrocarbon.  The customary sources of the high energy radiations may be used.  The process may be carried out by bubbling SO2 and oxygen or air through the liquid hydrocarbon and may be effected in continuous manner.  The preferred hydrocarbons contain 6-40 carbon atoms yielding sulphonic acids utilizable as detergents after neutralisation with alkali or alkaline earth metal bases. Examples are given illustrating the sulphoxidation of cetane, n - hexane, n-heptane, n-octane, n-nonane and cyclohexane and data is given illustrating the inhibiting effect of hexene-1 and 2.3-dimethyl butane on the sulphoxidation of n-hexane and the effect of water and temperature on the sulphoxidation of cetane. Other suitable hydrocarbons or mixtures thereof are specified.